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Apple used to have a standard Apple PR site Apple.com/PR which allowed all the access to the image artwork for the latest products. If you try that url it will take you to the Newsroom website. Below are some useful sites within the web to help location the information you require.
So you have enrolled your Apple devices to Intune to manage your iOS/iPadOS devices by pushing out policies to those mobile enrolled. This process allows organisations to manage Apple Devices, much like Jamf or Kandji which are a paid service. If you have a 365 Business account Intune is part of the service. Regardless you will need an Apple Business Manager portal to “manage” the Automatic Device Enrolment (ADE) (Master Data Serves MDS).
Continue reading “Renew Automated Device Enrollment Apple ADE Tokens in Intune”Utilising Preview as your PDF tool for all scans on a Mac is an exceptional feature. The process is remarkably reliable, and once the data is obtained, it is straightforward to manipulate and organise the documents in the desired order. The only minor inconvenience I have encountered is that saving amended PDF documents can sometimes be frustrating. In the past, I would save the process as I worked, checking the document’s integrity by highlighting it and pressing the spacebar, which would display a preview of the document’s final appearance. However, this method has become unreliable, so I have switched to exporting as a PDF in Preview to ensure that the document is saved in the correct format. This approach prevents me from closing the edited file until I have reviewed the PDF preview.
Continue reading “Preview scans multiple pages but only shows the first one”I deal with a lot of Adobe offline clients and there always seems to be a challenge to reactivate a licence that has expired.
In this article I am going to show how to deploy an Adobe offline build using the Adobe licensing Toolkit and the adobe console to build the package to then download and deploy. Adobe call it Isolated activation packages.
This walk through will be for both Windows (Yuck) and Mac bases OS.
Tools your going to need
How to join a HP printer wireless using the HP Smart Printer App.
This refers to new install and printers that have dropped off the network. The printer I am linking too is the HP Envy 6000 All in One Printer series.
You have 3 options:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/details/hp-envy-6000-all-in-one-printer-series/29256672
Install a new HP printer
Use one of the 3 options above and run through the HP Smart Printer App to install the printer.
Continue reading “HP Smart Printer App”Here is a short video from my YouTube channel showing you how to get round the office 365 latest build installer on a older Operating system.
This is also linked to my post on Office 365 https://macuser.org.uk/2024/11/08/office-365-version-control-for-legacy-macos/
Here is the link to the Current build that work on macOS. https://macuser.org.uk/2024/11/15/ms-office-compatible-chart-with-macos/
I know the title is odd, as Chrome like Firefox just seems to work and work regardless of the Operating system. I have now started to encountered legacy issue with macOS running the latest version of Google Chrome.
My test machine is a 2013 iMac 21.5″ machine that just turned up to the workshop for a fresh build. The first issue was getting Catalina installed after I replaced the mechanical drive with a SSD. Next was finding the correct version of Office 365 for this macOS. Link below
Here is a list of the build numbers of MS office that work with macOS versions. Please note I am only going back as far as 10.15 Catalina which was the first true 64Bit OS from Apple release. Most people would be used Office 2011 for Mojava and before
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-office-for-mac
With Office 365 and licence version control on legacy Mac’s running older software you may find that certain Apps cannot be installed (unless you upgrade) which for a lot of the older machine the OS is the highest it can cope with. With that in mind you need to watch Office 365 auto updates you may find allowing the update might throw you out of one of the Office packages like onedrive or outlook to name just a few.
You then have the issue of trying to fix the issue or find a work around. The good news is Microsoft had a good record of legacy software readily available to download from their website. Its a shame they don’t have the compatibility link to the files to show you what Version you need to download for your software you are running on your Mac.
Continue reading “Office 365 Version Control for legacy macOS”So sharing your exchange calendar to iCal is very easy and works very nicely on your mobile device. To share the Calendar the other way so bring it into Outlook (Why) is another story.
Outlook for Mac doesn’t support the CalDAV or CardDAV Internet standards. n short Outlook will not sync with iCal and there is no plan for Microsoft to change its approach. Looking into this and it’s possible to share the iCloud calendar to most web mail applications included Outlook for Web (notice the Web version).
So the process is login to iCloud.com with your Apple ID and go to calendars.
Continue reading “Share iCloud account in Outlook”